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Greetings to you. I have a quick question for the community today

I'm interested in the following format for recursive output from a command such as "ls" or "dir" when pointed to a folder:
...but there doesn't seem to be coverage for this type of output formatting in the manpages.

Maybe this is something "everyone just knows," and I missed the meeting?

Any ideas as to how this would look/work?

Thanks!

Hello LinQ,

You can use find -type f will help you to get the filenames in the recursive way. You can read in man find about maxdepth option too for same, if in case you need to fix the directories levels.


Thanks,
R. Singh

try
If you want files only

Code:

find $PWD -type f

If you want files and directories

Code:

find $PWD

If you want directories only

Code:

find $PWD -type d

Thanks so much folks!

REALLY CLOSE, but output formatting is still a bit of an issue...

Here's the output which seems to be required:
...and here's what

Code:

find | sort

gives:


I tried a couple of "tricks", but can't get anything to tick over...
(ugh)

Any thoughts as to what can be turned to pop this out?

Thanks again!

Hello LinQ,

If you want to get rid of . in results then, you can try following.

find `pwd` -type f

NOTE: This solution is only for finding files, you can make changes accordingly like if you want to look for directories or any specific files.

Thanks,
R. Singh

@RavinderSingh13:

Thanks but, unfortunately, -type doesn't take care of the leading periods issue (as tested on a couple of different Linux flavors); and the improperly-formatted first directory listing remains a problem in any case...

FWIW, (a hint, perhaps?) the formatting sought is also used by Debian when the package manager creates *.list files for installed programs


Thanks again --

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This works for part of the problem:

Code:

find | sed s/.// | sort

...but the first line of the output still needs to be corrected.

Is there a way of piping this through another filter to put in the required /. @ the beginning of the output?



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Back again.

Code:

echo /.; find | sed s/.// | sort

almost has it licked; but now we have a blank line left behind by sed: ???

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Finished:

Code:

echo /.; find | sed s/.// | grep -v ^$ | sort

Thanks again, all

find -depth has almost the right output, but since it can't know it's done a folder until it's printed all its contents, does so backwards -- the folder contents first, then the folder itself.

So pipe it through tac and edit the first line to have a dot.

Code:

find / -depth | tac | sed 's/\/$/&./'